Lisa Campbell Ernst

Like her older brother, the Gingerbread Boy, who was eventually devoured by a fox, the Gingerbread Girl eludes the many people who would like to eat her but also has a plan to escape her sibling's fate.

The Gingerbread Girl

Long ago, all the letters of the alphabet were together in their box, but one by one they disappeared and young readers are invited to help find them. An IRA-CBC Children's Choice Book. Reprint.

The Letters are Lost!

Round Like a Ball

The Gingerbread Girl, who once escaped the fox that devoured her brother, must now try to save from a similar fate the animal crackers she received as a birthday gift.

The Gingerbread Girl goes animal crackers

When Sam Johnson inadvertently discovers how much fun sewing can be, he tries to join the Rosedale Women's Quilting Club. "Don't be silly," the club president says. "We can't have a man here bungling everything!" But Sam Johnson won't take no for an answer. He organizes a rival sewing circle -- and no women need apply.

Sam Johnson and the Blue Ribbon Quilt

The Turn-Around, Upside-Down Alphabet Book

An updated version, set on the prairie, of the familiar story about a little girl, her grandmother, and a not-so-clever wolf.

A Newfangled Prairie Tale

Little Red Riding Hood

As she tries to find the book that she must return to the library that day, Stella gathers a growing group of people who have all enjoyed reading the book.

Stella Louella's Runaway Book

Zinnia and Dot, self-satisfied hens who bicker constantly about who lays better eggs, put aside their differences to protect a prime specimen from a marauding weasel.

Zinnia and Dot

This Is the Van That Dad Cleaned

Sylvia Jean has an amazing costume for every occasion, but when a party is announced with a prize for the best costume, she cannot think of what to wear.

Sylvia Jean, Drama Queen

Ever since she snooped around the house of the three bears, Goldilocks (now Goldi) has been feeling guilty. She wants to do something nice for the bears. What if she stops by one day, replaces the icky porridge with Rutabega Breakfast Bars and all her favorite foods, fixes Baby Bear's broken chair, and cleans the house until it gleams? Perfect! When the bears return home, they'll hardly recognize their home! They'll LOVE it! (Or will they?)

Goldilocks Returns

For use in schools and libraries only. Long ago, all the letters of the alphabet were together in their box, but one by one they disappeared, and now the reader helps to find them.

The Letters Are Lost!

Describes the physical characteristics and behavior of animals and plants commonly found in the yard and how such items as a wagon, hose, and sprinkler work.

How Things Work in the Yard

An adventuresome ladybug befriends an apprehensive caterpillar and helps him learn to enjoy life and be happy with what he is and what he becomes.

Bubba and Trixie

Kate Lied

Jo Tunstall

During the Depression, after grandfather Clarence loses his job and the bank takes their house, Clarence and his family move to Idaho to harvest potatoes, living in a tent and earning enough money to keep the family together through hard times. Reprint.

A Tale from the Great Depression

Potato

One day the earth gets a warm wake-up call from the sun -- it's Spring! Earth tells a little worm, and before long the happy gossip travels far and wide. . . . Lisa Campbell Ernst celebrates the awakening of life that comes with Spring. Her playful words and pictures resonate with the cheeriness that rises with the season.

Wake Up, It's Spring!

She's fast. She's feisty. And she outsmarted that sly fox in her boisterous debut. Now the gingerbread girl is back with a new batch of friends - the animal crackers! They don't want to listen to the Gingerbread Girl's advice, even though she is one smart cookie. But they'd better watch it, or they'll all become treats for that trickster fox. With fun twists on the classic refrain plus big, candy-colored illustrations, this is one sweet treat.

The Gingerbread Girl Goes Animal Crackers

A companion to How Things Work Around the Yard profiles a range of common household objects--from soap and scissors to keys and toilets--to explain the basic principles of how they function.

Lisa Campbell Ernst

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